open google maps through intent for specific location in android

android, android-intent, google-maps, google-maps-urls

Solution

I have not tested this but you could try :

First method:

String uri = String.format(Locale.ENGLISH, "geo:%f,%f", latitude, longitude);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(uri));
context.startActivity(intent);

EDIT: This might not work with Google maps 7,0

hence you could change the uri to :

Second option:

String geoUri = "http://maps.google.com/maps?q=loc:" + lat + "," + lng + " (" + mTitle + ")";

where `mTitle` is the name of the location.

Third option:

geo:0,0?q=my+street+address

Fourth option:

String map = "http://maps.google.co.in/maps?q=" + yourAddress;

Hope that works and helps :D..

Problem

I'm designing one application in which I want to show specific location on Map. I'm passing `String` of address which is already placed on `Google Map`. Following is my `Intent` code.. ``` String url = "http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr="+address; Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url)); startActivity(intent); ``` But it gives me Google Map for getting direction. I know why that so, because I used `daddr` in `url` but I don't know what to use for specific location..Please tell me what to use there..

Original source

Related problems